# Client node unidentified

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/client-node-unidentified/43349>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 3, 2016, 8:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/client-node-unidentified/43349 "2016-03-03T08:33:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![cirot87](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b782af/32.png) [@cirot87](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cirot87)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 8:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/client-node-unidentified/43349/1 "2016-03-03T08:33:45Z")

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Hi, i have a problem with settings a client node.

I have a cluster with 8 nodes: 2 master - 2 client - 4 data.

but if i see my cluster stats i have this:

"nodes": {  
"count": {  
"total": 8,  
"master\_only": 2,  
"data\_only": 4,  
"master\_data": 0,  
"client": 0  
},

NO client node are set, but in my es.yml file i've set this:

[cluster.name](http://cluster.name): elastic

[node.name](http://node.name): client\_01  
node.master: false  
node.data: false

bootstrap.mlockall: true

network.host: my\_ip  
http.port: 9200  
http.compression: true

discovery.zen.minimum\_master\_nodes: 1  
discovery.zen.ping.multicast.enabled: false  
discovery.zen.ping.unicast.hosts: ["host\_ip1","host\_ip2","host\_ip3","host\_ip4"]

So my question is: Is there a particular configuration or particular  
way to use a client node or i have an error in my config file?

Can someone help me pls?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 9:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/client-node-unidentified/43349/2 "2016-03-03T09:23:51Z")

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That is the correct config for a client node.  
What version are you on?

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 9:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/client-node-unidentified/43349/3 "2016-03-03T09:25:47Z")

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> [@cirot87](#):
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> discovery.zen.minimum\_master\_nodes: 1

If you have 2 dedicated master nodes (3 is recommended) minimum\_master\_nodes should be set to 2 in order to avoid the risk of split brain scenarios.

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**Author:** ![cirot87](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b782af/32.png) [@cirot87](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cirot87)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 10:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/client-node-unidentified/43349/4 "2016-03-03T10:41:44Z")

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my version is 2.2, any suggestions???

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**Author:** ![thn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/thn/32/8061_2.png) [@thn](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thn)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 11:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/client-node-unidentified/43349/5 "2016-03-03T11:06:18Z")

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if you run the URL below in a browser, you should see the client node(s) in the list of nodes. If not, then normally I would check the log for the client node to find out what may have caused the problem.

http://[es host]:[es port]/\_cat/nodes?v

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 11:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/client-node-unidentified/43349/6 "2017-07-05T23:11:39Z")

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